evocation - Call forth the blue-green flame of computation from the universe, weave its energies into a fabric, that we may share our blood with it.

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
24 hours	all the syscall parameters are in the kernel's order now	Irene Knapp
	there was never a good reason for them not to be plus, the formerly bespoke ones use the generic helpers now; sys-open and sys-close are implemented; and a bug in push-input-buffer and pop-output-buffer is fixed unfortunately these were breaking changes, so there's another evoke.hex in this one Change-Id: Ifad58fc2fd757adcf89a69c59575565a10406ec2 Force-Push: yes
48 hours	change sys-write and sys-read to take file descriptors	Irene Knapp
	and also sys-write didn't used to return a result this required a little massaging to make it build, the host evoke needed to not actually pass the file descriptor in evoke.e. for posterity: this was fixed by changing it everywhere else as a one-off, then changing it there and using the intermediate version to build the one being checked in now. this kind of weirdness is a thing we get the freedom to do because of the bootstrapped distribution model, though we still strongly prefer not to do it unless necessary. this breaking change would have had to happen at some point, so it's considered acceptable. the size of the diff to evoke.hex is larger than ideal. this raises the need to have a policy for when to regenerate it. since this is a breaking change, it's mandatory. it also seems important to commit a regenerated copy when a release is tagged. it will probably turn out to be a good idea to not regenerate it excessively, otherwise. it's possible that in the long run it might make sense to add name-mapping functionality to hex, just to make the diffs smaller. Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I2648b2577c5c21b126e46405e9888b5cb59aa0b7
2026-05-15	make the label transformation work all the way, no crashing	Irene Knapp
	the code doesn't quite run yet, that'll be a future CL Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I71e6a45127c1fc37906d902e36142c17afef2a21
2026-05-07	document labels.e; also clean up elf.e	Irene Knapp
	the documentation in labels.e is entirely new, synthesized from informal private discussions. this is also intended as a final pass to make sure all the comments and nuances in the ELF code from quine.asm are incorporated in elf.e. also this uses the new `L@'` and `L!'` facilities for terseness Force-Push: yes Change-Id: Ieabb2bb26f4b83260f0072dcdcd0950f9aa9fab2
2026-05-07	refactored the label code and ELF template into their own files	Irene Knapp
	nice, right? :) modular programming! :D Force-Push: yes Change-Id: I56dd219fd2147850a0bb5b4a8cb3f9760e787215